Copies

Copy number:
P-326(1)

Wanting the blank leaf a1.

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, bound for the Bodleian Library, with the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. ‘Epistole Pii Familiares' in manuscript in black ink along the fore-edge.

Size: 295 × 210 × 28 mm.

Size of leaf: 284 × 188 mm.

A few marginal notes, extracting personal names, in an early sixteenth-century humanist hand, brown ink.

On a2r a seven-line initial ‘P' is supplied in burgundy within a square gold ground; the area defined by the letter and the full border are filled with floral and foliate decoration supplied in burgundy, blue, and green, and with gold dots. The coat of arms, within a green wreath, has putti on either side; other initials are supplied in blue or red.